Abstract: An iterative Fourier transform unit of a modulation pattern calculation apparatus performs a Fourier transform on a waveform function including an intensity spectrum function and a phase spectrum function, performs a replacement of a temporal intensity waveform function based on a desired waveform after the Fourier transform, and then performs an inverse Fourier transform. The iterative Fourier transform unit performs the replacement using a result of multiplying a function representing the desired waveform by a coefficient. The coefficient has a value with which a difference between the function after the multiplication of the coefficient and the temporal intensity waveform function after the Fourier transform is smaller than a difference before the multiplication, and a ratio of the difference is smaller when an intensity is higher at each time of the function before the multiplication.

Abstract: A molded article with improved mechanical strength properties and thermal properties, and a method for producing the molded article. A composite molded article (C) comprising a cellulosic nanomaterial (A) and a thermoplastic resin (B), an area under a stress-strain curve of the composite molded article (C) (AUC1) being at least two times an area under a stress-strain curve of a melt-molded article (D) having the same composition as that of the composite molded article (C) (AUC2), wherein the stress-strain curve is a curve drawn with strain (unit: %) on the horizontal axis and stress (unit: MPa) on the vertical axis and obtained by subjecting the composite molded article (C) or the melt-molded article (D) to a tensile test, and the area is an area up to the horizontal axis from under a curved portion of the curve that is from the origin (stress: 0) of the stress-strain curve to a fracture of the composite molded article (C) or the melt-molded article (D).

Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing containing a cylinder portion, an electric motor disposed in the casing, a drive shaft connected to the electric motor to rotate axially, a screw rotor disposed in the cylinder portion and connected to the drive shaft, and a gate rotor having a gate to mesh with a screw groove of the screw rotor. A compression chamber is formed by the screw rotor and the gate. A suction-side end portion of the screw rotor is formed in a cylindrical shape so that an outer peripheral surface of the suction-side end portion is along an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder portion. A seal portion to reduce a flow of fluid is provided on a first surface facing the outer peripheral surface of the suction-side end portion or a first end surface of the suction-side end portion in an axial direction.

Abstract: An ultrasonic generator has a speaker element having a first resonance frequency and a speaker element having a second resonance frequency. The first resonance frequency and the second resonance frequency are adjacent resonance frequencies in the speaker. The distance between the elements is set so that the sound from the first speaker element and the sound from the second speaker element have a predetermined relationship at a target position. The target position is two or more positions on the object located in the target space. A predetermined relationship is a relationship in which a sound from the first speaker element and a sound from the second speaker element strengthen each other at an intermediate frequency between the first resonance frequency and the second resonance frequency.

Abstract: Provided is a temperature sensor used in a molding machine, comprising a cylindrical fiber probe into which an optical fiber is inserted; a window support part formed in a cylindrical shape and into which at least a part of the fiber probe is inserted; a protective window disposed on a tip end side of the fiber probe while being at least partially inserted into the window support part; and a sleeve member formed in an annular shape, and having an inner circumferential surface in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the protective window and an outer circumferential surface in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the window support part.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor having a plurality of helical grooves, a first rotor configured to mesh with the helical grooves of the screw rotor, a second rotor configured to mesh with the helical grooves of the screw rotor, and a casing having a partition wall rotatably retaining the screw rotor and covering an outer peripheral surface of the screw rotor. The partition wall includes first and second envelope portions to form first and second compression chambers. The first compression chamber compresses a fluid introduced into the casing with a suction pressure to an intermediate pressure higher than the suction pressure. The second compression chamber compresses the fluid with the intermediate pressure to a discharge pressure higher than the intermediate pressure.

Abstract: A cell picking device includes a stage, a sucker, a driver, a work content receiver, a registrar and a device controller. A sample container is placed on the stage. The driver is provided to execute sample scraping work and sample sucking work using a pipette tip attached to the sucker. In a case in which selection of work contents of the driver is received by the work content receiver, a work procedure including the received work contents of the driver is registered by the registrar. The work of the driver is controlled by the device controller in accordance with the registered work procedure.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating a type of corresponding computation processing that the distributed computing device is capable of handling, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the corresponding computation processing.

Abstract: A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a controller configured to perform assignment processing configured to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on at least one of a prediction value of an output power of a distributed power supply placed in the facility, a prediction value of power consumption of the facility, and a prediction value of a surplus power of the facility.

Abstract: A data generation method of the present disclosure is a method for generating data for controlling a spatial light modulator. The data generation method includes: preparing a plurality of initial phase spectrum functions; generating each of a plurality of pieces of preliminary data for controlling the spatial light modulator by using each of the plurality of initial phase spectrum functions; and selecting at least one of the plurality of pieces of preliminary data and setting the at least one piece of preliminary data as the data for controlling the spatial light modulator.

Abstract: An optical pulse train generation device includes a storage unit and a characteristic setting unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of phase patterns in advance. The plurality of phase patterns are phase patterns for forming, from a first optical pulse, an optical pulse train including a plurality of second optical pulses having time differences therebetween and having different center wavelengths. Between the plurality of phase patterns, one or both of a first characteristic regarding the first optical pulse and a second characteristic regarding the optical pulse train are different. The characteristic setting unit sets the first characteristic and the second characteristic in response to the user's input. The storage unit stores the plurality of phase patterns in association with the first characteristic and the second characteristic. A spatial light modulator displays a phase pattern corresponding to the first characteristic and the second characteristic set by the characteristic setting unit.

Abstract: The auto-sampler for chromatographs includes a needle for sampling configured to move while a tip end thereof faces vertically downward; a switching valve having a plurality of ports to which channels constituting a chromatograph are connected, the switching valve switching between port connecting conditions to switch between channel configurations; and an injection port including an opening at an upper surface thereof through which a tip end of the needle is inserted to make the needle fluidically communicate with a pipe connected to one port of the switching valve, and a needle seal configured to get into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the tip end portion to make the needle fluidically communicate with the pipe in a liquid-tight manner when the tip end of the needle is inserted through the opening.

Abstract: A cell picking device includes a stage, a sucker, a driver, a work content receiver, a registrar and a device controller. A sample container is placed on the stage. The driver is provided to execute sample scraping work and sample sucking work using a pipette tip attached to the sucker. In a case in which selection of work contents of the driver is received by the work content receiver, a work procedure including the received work contents of the driver is registered by the registrar. The work of the driver is controlled by the device controller in accordance with the registered work procedure.

Abstract: The invention provides a bed that enables non-invasive functional MRI for general purposes. The invention provides a functional MRI bed system equipped with a helmet to immobilize the head of the animal with a U-shaped fixture.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a first power system, a second power system, a switching relay, and a relay controller. The first power system is coupled to an engine restart motor. The second power system is provided independently of the first power system and is coupled to a starter and an accessory. The coupling state of the switching relay is switchable to an on state in which the first power system and the second power system are coupled, and to an off state in which the first power system and the second power system are not coupled. The relay controller is configured to receive a supply of electric power from both the first power system and the second power system and to control the coupling state of the switching relay.

Abstract: A device for a machine tool is a device for a machine tool attachable to an attachment portion of the machine tool, and includes a processor for performing a process of booting an OS, a function portion for receiving an instruction from an application running on the OS, and a system power supply for sending power toward the processor and the function portion.

Abstract: An excrement property estimation model learning device includes a training data acquisition unit configured to acquire training data including input-side training data including an excrement space which is a predetermined space where there is excrement from an animal being reared, and learning image data that is image data of a captured image obtained by capturing the excrement space, and a correct label indicating whether any abnormal excrement that is abnormal excrement is reflected in an image shown in the learning image data, an excrement property estimation learning model execution unit configured to use an excrement property estimation learning model, which is a machine learning model for estimating a probability that abnormal excrement is reflected in the learning image data, to estimate the probability that abnormal excrement is reflected in the image shown in the learning image data, and an update unit configured to update, on the basis of a difference between an estimation result from the excrement

Abstract: Laser-marked packaged surface acoustic wave devices are provided. The laser-marked packaged surface acoustic wave device may include a package structure encapsulating a surface acoustic wave device on a first side of a piezoelectric substrate. The opposite side of the piezoelectric substrate can be directly marked using a laser. The laser may be a deep ultraviolet laser. By directly marking the piezoelectric substrate itself, the use of a separate marking film can be avoided, making the packaged surface acoustic wave device thinner. When the laser has a wavelength readily absorbed by the piezoelectric substrate, a relatively shallow marking may be made in the piezoelectric substrate. The markings can extend less than 1 micrometer into the piezoelectric substrate, so as not to affect the structural integrity of the piezoelectric substrate or the operation of the packaged surface acoustic wave device.

Abstract: The auto-sampler for chromatographs includes a sampling needle, a pipe, a pump portion, and a connecting mechanism configured to connect the sampling needle and the pipe. The connecting mechanism includes a first component fixed to the sampling needle, a second component fixed to the pipe, a fixing component, and a packing. The fixing component fixes the first component and the second component using screwing of screws while the end surface of the sampling needle and the end surface of the pipe are in contact with the packing. As a result, dead volume at the connecting portion between the sampling needle and the pipe is reduced.

Abstract: An automatic sample introduction device includes a needle, a sample loop, a mixer and a suction injection switch mechanism. The mixer is provided between the needle and the sample loop. The suction injection switch mechanism sequentially sucks first and second fluids into the sample loop through the needle and the mixer and injects the first and second fluids held in the sample loop into a predetermined injection port. A chromatograph includes the automatic sample introduction device having the above-mentioned configuration, an analysis column and a detector. The analysis column is connected to the injection port of the automatic sample introduction device, and the detector is connected to the analysis column.